PageUp People Improves Candidate Engagement With Upgraded Career Site Capability

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Published: Feb 5, 2014 8:01 a.m. ET

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Latest Enhancements Help Organizations Improve Their Employment Brand, Better Connect With Top Talent

NEW YORK, NY and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM and MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, Feb 05, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) --
PageUp People, a leading multinational talent management solutions
provider, today announced details of its upgraded careers platform, a
development designed to help employers enhance the candidate
experience they provide their job applicants and project a more
positive employment brand.

Research from the Candidate Experience Awards shows just how
important candidate experience is for a company's ability to maintain
relationships with candidates and attract new talent. More than half
of all candidates are likely to share their interview experiences
with their peers, and increasingly do so on social media; thus the
ability to provide a positive candidate experience has become a top
priority for many organizations in terms of improving their ability
to connect with top candidates.

Given the greater role that the candidate experience plays in shaping
the employment brand and the company's ability to attract top talent,
PageUp People enhanced its career sites capability.

Over the past 12 months, PageUp People clients have been offered the
option to upgrade their careers sites to achieve the following
outcomes:

-- Through full alignment between their careers site and their website
branding, organizations can provide clearer representation of their
employment brand and culture within the search and application
process.
-- Organizations are able to deliver an enhanced candidate experience,
from easily searching for relevant opportunities and setting job
alerts to greater social connectivity and the ability to auto-populate
profile details.
-- Employers can create a truly mobile experience by enabling candidates
to apply for roles via any form of mobile device, without compromising
the recruitment process.

"Many of our clients have recognized that their careers sites need to
be engaging and different, in terms of representing the brand and the
experience candidates would enjoy as employees," said Bryce Dunn,
Senior Vice President of Global Product Management for PageUp People.
"This can be as simple as making the search and job alert functions
on the site easier, to a more complex overhaul of the site to better
represent their brand, their culture and, most importantly, the type
of employee they are trying to attract. In all instances, mobile is a
key consideration -- making sure that all candidates can apply
anywhere, anytime."

All of PageUp People's clients have mobile-optimized careers sites to
ensure they can provide the 37% of candidates accessing their career
sites via a mobile device with an easy and rewarding experience.

"We understood, through research by TalentHQ, that up to 70 percent
of visitors via a mobile device take action within an hour, and that
percentage drops to 30 percent for other mediums," said Dunn.
"Therefore, we developed our enhanced careers site functionality to
ensure our clients' candidates have a positive experience when
applying to their open positions."

Supplying clients with the metrics to track and understand their
candidates' application experience is the next priority for PageUp
People, with the intent to release this functionality in early 2014.

"A great mobile application experience isn't only one that enables
candidates to view and interact with a careers site on a mobile
device. It is one that maintains the integrity of the organization's
brand and takes into consideration that they are on a mobile device,"
said Dunn. "Helping our clients understand what devices a candidate
is using to apply, if they change devices along the way or if they
just give up and, if so, where they give up, helps our clients make
informed decisions regarding their career site set-up and application
process."

Some PageUp People clients currently using the company's career site
enhancements and leading the way with improved candidate experience
and application processes include Officeworks, WesTrac, Jetstar and
iiNet.

About PageUp People
PageUp People helps multinational employers
strategically align their talent resources to execute corporate
strategy across borders, business units, cultures and languages --
maximizing employee value and business results. The PageUp People
SaaS-delivered solution unifies Recruiting, Performance Management,
Compensation, Training & Development, Career Planning, Succession
Management and Advanced Workforce Analytics to help global employers
overcome the talent management challenges that are inherent to
operating across multiple geographies.

PageUp People solutions support large multinational organizations,
including several Global 500 employers and more than 90,000 HR
practitioners operating across more than 180 countries from a broad
range of industries, including financial services, retail, mining and
refining, transportation and telecommunications. PageUp People is
headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with additional office
locations in Sydney, London, New York and Singapore. Learn more about
how PageUp People can help transform your organization's
multinational HR initiatives by visiting www.pageuppeople.com.

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